Cold War Weapons | MiG Fighters: Episode 2 | RT Documentary

In 1958, the United States conducted nuclear tests in space. The American military expected the USSR’s response and intensified their reconnaissance U-2 flights over the Soviet territory. At that time, no ground-based anti-aircraft system in the USSR could impede the U-2 at an altitude of 20 km. Soviet scientists were tasked to outperform the American space plane and came up with the MiG-25 or “Foxbat”. How did the MiG change the space race?